Two US lawmakers proposed a bill this week, demanding the withdrawal of all US troops in Pakistan, where they are conducting covert operations against terrorists. Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich pointing to reports the US was stepping up its presence there.
The US Senate has given final approval to the biggest overhaul of American financial regulation in decades. The reforms are intended to avert a repeat of the 2008 crisis that brought the world economy to the brink of collapse.
WASHINGTON : US President Barack Obama said on Sunday that Americans had answered the call of history, after Congress sent him a sweeping health reform bill he said answered the prayers of the uninsured. “This is what change looks like,” Obama said, in late-night remarks in the East Room of the White House, soon after the House of Representatives voted to pass his health care plan after months of cliffhanger politics. A tired, but triumphant Obama said that despite the predictions of pundits that it was not possible to pass the mammoth bill, Americans had risen above their differences, though the measure passed without a single Republican vote.
Obama Health Care , The US House of Representatives Sunday would vote to overhaul health care system. During an address in this regard in Washington, Obama urged the US lawmakers to vote for the people for America. The President urged that it is time to pass the bill, which has seen decades of false starts and a year of tough negotiations.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday roundly defeated a resolution demanding President Barack Obama withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan, in a key election-year test for his war strategy. Lawmakers routed the resolution in a 356-65 vote that saw 60 of Obama’s Democratic allies and five of his Republican critics cast ballots to call home all US forces from what he has called the central front against extremism. The measure demanded Obama pull US forces out of Afghanistan 30 days after the bill becomes law or, if he decides that is too dangerous, by no later than December 31.
President Barack Obama said that a forthcoming review of the US nuclear posture would reduce the number and role of nuclear weapons in Washington’s national security strategy.
Barack Obama Hails ‘Historic’ Passage of Senate Health Bill, With the US Senate passing on Thursday its version of legislation to overhaul the US healthcare system, President Barack Obama said supporters were “incredibly close” to enacting the reform package into law.
WASHINGTON: U.S. Senate approved $636 billion defense spending bill, The U.S.
FALLUJAH : A car bomb outside near mosque in a town near the Western Iraqi city of Fallujah killed 16 people and wounded 30 on Tuesday around the time of evening prayers.
WASHINGTON: Hamid Karzai is an Undeserving Partner: Pelosi, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is an “unworthy partner” who does not deserve a big boost either in US troops or civilian aid, US House of Representatives . Pelosi, a skeptic on sending more troops to Afghanistan, also said in an interview with National Public Radio aired that there was not strong support among her fellow Democrats in Congress for “any big ramp-up of troops” to oppose resurgent Taliban forces. She told in the interview that she had asked fellow Democrats to give President Barack Obama room to decide his Afghan strategy, which is expected to be announced in the coming weeks